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A comment on New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in jail awaiting trial. Parent comment

Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in... by azernik on Monday November 27, 2017 @12:54PM (#15789354)
The technique I'm referring to is including race as a factor, and then instructing your model to disregard that factor. Not being race-blind, but being race-aware while attempting to be neutral to race.
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Re:New Jersey’s experiment to reduce the number of people in... by opportune on Monday November 27, 2017 @01:25PM (#15789709)
Yeah I think this is an interesting idea but I don't actually understand how the great-grandparent comment believes that this could be done. I don't think it works in a strict Bayesian sense. You would have to go out of your way to instruct your model to operate correctively
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